Role Of Social Media And Cyber Crime

Social Media and Cyber Crime

Social Media: It’s the medium through which we share our requests and needs with in our surroundings, family and society by the use of electronic components and internet. It has become a phrase that we throw around a lot these days, often to describe what we post on sites and apps like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snap chat and Google talk others. It’s a platform of exposer, attraction and virtual satisfaction. For the business, it has become great space to market products, promote brands, connect to current customers and foster new business. Social Media Playing Vital role:

At this transitional phase of society, social media is playing a great role to Transforms society for the better.

Major contributions

We can reconnect with our people even after years searching them. We can see their pictures and take a glimpse into their life, and it's nice to have a way to check in on their updates.

• It revolutionized brand engagement; social media has brought revolution in marketing field. People like to see brands respond when they comment on a Facebook post or mention the company in a tweet. The use of social media to handle the bulk of customer service inquiries is slowly becoming standard practice. Interaction fuels sales and social media agencies know that it is the key to brand success in a digital world

• It’s a valuable aid for crime-solving and crime pattern analysis; Believe it or not, social networking is providing officers new avenues and tools to help them solve crimes. Police department is using social media as an asset to investigate criminal using their profile and connectivity with other criminals around the world and find out the network. Nepal police has launched Hamro Police mobile app through which we can give information for the crime prevention

According to a Threat Report: the primary motive behind social networking attacks is monetary gain. Constantly in search of new ways to make money, cybercriminals have found ways to monetize data available on social networks.

Mode of Cyber Crime using Social Media:

 Fake Offers, which often requires the user to share credentials

 “Like jacking”, whereby fake “Like” buttons install malware to ultimately gain access to the user’s computer

 Fake Plug-ins, tricking users to download fake Internet browser extensions, which can pose as legitimate extensions, but in reality steal sensitive information from the infected machine and

 Fake Apps, tricking users to install a supplemental application that appears to be integrated for use with a social network, but is used to steal access credentials.

 Social Engineering: includes extensive research information (legal and illicit) about an enterprise, which is gathered and used to exploit people. Successful social engineering results in partial or complete circumvention of an enterprise’s security systems. The best firewall is useless if the person behind it gives away either the access codes or